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'] � - 20 � so that the Commissioners could consider how it relates to the EIR. The Commissioners will need to reference this document again at the future hearing on the Planned Development Permit. ZONING MAP AMENDMENT: The applicant is requesting a Zoning Map Amendment from the General Industrial (GI) to the Industrial Restricted (IR) Zoning District. The GI Zoning District has a 10% floor area ratio lim't for office uses. The IR Zoning District has an overall floor area ratio (FAR) limit of �0%, and specifies that up to half of the floor area may be office uses. The proposed project does not conform to the GI floor area ratio limitations. The projecYs proposed 541,000 square foot floor area represents a 70% FAR. An additional 10,000 square feet of floor area is also proposed for the Marine Science Institute, which will be discussed in the next section about the proposed Zoning Text Amendment. The existing GI Zoning District designation allows for heavy industrial uses such as large scale manufacturing operations, factories, wrecking yards, and cement batch plants. The purpose of the G! zone is stated as: "To provide a district exclusively for sound industrial development wherein manufacturing and other industries can locate and operate away from the restricting influences on non-industrial uses while maintaining an environment free from offensive or objectionable noise, dust, odor, and other nuisances." The proposed IR Zoning District designation allows for a range of inedium intensity industrial uses, such as R&D and associated manufacturing activities. The purpose of the IR zone is stated as: "To promote viable industrial areas by providing a district for the location of selected industries, wholesale establishments, specified retail establishments, and heavy commercial uses which can congregate together without offense to each other or to neighboring districts, yet which, because of the nature of their operations, cannot maintain standards as high as those required in the IP District. The zoning district is intended to preserve land for a wide range of industrial uses by limiting office uses." Best planning practice emphasizes that zoning designations should be consistent with overlying General Plan Land Use designations. In cases of conflict between General Pian and zoning designations, the General Plan Land Use designation should take precedence, since the General Plan Map represents the long-range land use intention (or "blueprinY') for the entire City. In the case of the subject property, the General Plan Land Use designa!ion is "Light Industrial," which is considered to be consistent with the City's light and medium industrial zones, but not consistent with the GI Zoning District, which is a zone characterized by heavy industrial uses. The City's zones that are more consistent with the "Light Industrial" General Plan Land Use designation are the Industrial Part (IP) (light) and Industrial Restricted (IR) (medium) Zoning Districts. The proposed rezoning to the IR Zoning District would be consistent with the General Plan Land Use designation. In addition to the City's General Plan, long-term land use control of the subject property had also been specified in the Bay Conservation and Development Commission's (BCDC) Port Plan. Recently, at the request of the applicant, BCDC reviewed and approved removing the subject property from their "Port Priority" use